Goals

• Recast existing lessons
  • What are the core knowledge aims?
  • What the skills-based aims (implicit/explicit)?
  • Are there any connections to other disciplines, students' lives, real world?
• Redesign lessons and assessments
  • Reinforce how students learn
  • Accentuate student-centered processes
  • Promote student engagement
  • Foster complex mastery of skills
  • Focus on essential capacities and habits of mind(handout)
  • View class time as lab/rehearsal/process/practice/coaching space and interval for student development
  • Incorporate regular, individualized opportunities for students to demonstrate objectives and receive feedback
• Design inquiry-based, problem-based, and project-based learning and assessments
• Develop a culture of reflection, flexibility, and collegial dialogue

Resources Related to Specific Topics

I. Longer Class Periods
II. Inquiry-based Learning
III. Project-based Learning
IV. Rubrics
V. Learning Innovation Grant Participants and Descriptions
VI. How-To Videos
VI. Vetted iPad Apps
V. Classroom Management Systems


Glossary of Terms